foot/ball

i roll it around big toe anchor
dragging unocean floor.
i push it over
muscling the side.
i splay the five toe rays.
i pull it back
to an ever longed for
but never reached
shin above.
i bow toes and heel
making arch taut to spring.

i play games with it--
crawling beyond my
enormous rigid clothes--
soft limbed among soft limbed
budding flowers.

beginning in, wading in

Lukewarm waters so far
cut back the hairs from the bony feet,
so innocent.
Yet the source mountains are vast,
the farther skies curtained by clouds,
the ocean unseen,
yet sensed,
in my pulse.